@jonboy_avfc@TheBarmyArmy Fair point about the hundred. I havent watched a ball and dont want to. Not listened to his podcast in a while either, wonder how his recent comments went down with it being a BBC podcast, surely they didnt like it
@FactsRealTalk@Red781RuM@CrimsonDesert_ Hes got to put it somewhere, cant store it in his bottomless pockets with everything else, no room.
What if you remove it from your inventory completely? Assume he doesnt have one then
@HashTan108@NoContextCounty Explain your thoughts on that. I agree putting your foot down would have been much quicker and put the batter in a better position to run the next run. Rather than hunched over awkwardly.
@head_dier@CricketopiaCom Carse is a funny one, hes been poor in this series, granted. Been good in previous away series though and probably deserved a go.
Other points are valid, Robinson must be an attitude thing, he should be England's main bowler, but at 32 now the boat has sailed.
@PUFC7@JCmacc1@7Cricket@bowlologist Though I agree we are underprepared, your point isnt true.
Starc hasn't played for Yorkshire since 2012. Hazlewood and Cummins have never played CC. Lyon played for Lancs last year but that wasnt a Ashes year and hasn't played in England since 2017.
Some of the bats do play CC.
The “mansion tax” is not about the rich. It’s about training you to accept more tax.
Every tax that now presses on the middle class began life as a “temporary” levy on the wealthy. Income tax was for war. VAT was for “non-essentials.” Fuel duty was for the environment. Every single one became permanent. Every single one expanded downward.
Now they’ve found the next ladder: property.
£2 million sounds untouchable today. That’s the trick. They freeze the threshold. Inflation does the rest. Wages rise. House prices rise. The band doesn’t. Without ever “raising” the tax, they quietly pull millions more into it. This is fiscal drag — taxation by stealth.
You’ve already seen this movie with electric cars. First: “Buy EVs, they’re tax-free.”
Now: VED applies. Luxury supplements apply. Mileage charges are coming. The exemption was bait.
And now you’re being sold the same lie again — this time “for the children,” “for fairness,” “just for mansions.”
Here’s the truth: the wealthy already fund the state — but so does everyone else. The oldest political trick is pretending you’re taking from one to give to ten, when in reality you’re taking from all ten while selling them a comforting story.
This isn’t redistribution.
It’s psychological conditioning.
And every time you accept the first step, you guarantee the last.
@SASEnterprise5@glurcher@CountyChamp Agree with that, but that wasn't the point I was replying to. Be interesting to see how he goes, particularly abroad